Even the Left think Political Correctness has gone too far.In a strange twist of events Political Correctness is coming under fire from its main proponents, the political left. This recent article in The New Statesman starts to question just how far Political Correctness has taken society along the path of authoritarianism. The topic is religion but the point it makes applies to all those intolerances that have become fashionable.

I believe that religious liberty is mean­ingless if religious subcultures do not have the right to practise and preach according to their beliefs. These views – for example, on abortion, adoption, divorce, marriage, promiscuity and euthanasia – may be unfashionable. They certainly will strike many liberal-minded outsiders as harsh, impractical, outmoded, and irrelevant.But that is not the point. Adherents of these beliefs should not face life-ruining disadvantages. They should not have to close their businesses, as happened to the Christian couple who said only married heterosexual couples could stay at their bed and breakfast. They should not lose their jobs, which was the case of the registrar who refused to marry gays. When Britain was fighting for its life in the Second World War, it never forced pacifists to bear arms. So why force the closure of a Catholic adoption agency that for almost 150 years has placed some of society’s most vulnerable children with loving parents?

The author has a point. What happened to tolerance? When even the Left get fed up with the authoritarian nonsense of this long hated trend in society we can be sure the worm has started to turn.